FOIS 2023 -> COMING SOON!! Call for Participation (International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems held in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)

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===== Call for Participation to FOIS 2023 conference, workshops and tutorials =====

Program:  https://fois2023.griis.ca/program/

Registration deadline: Jul 13, 2023
https://fois2023.griis.ca/registration/

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13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023),
July 17-20, 2023 (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada) and Sept 18-20, 2023 (Online)

Important dates
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Registration deadline: Jul 13, 2023
On site conference: July 17-20, 2023

Definition and scope
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The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web.

FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.

Key Notes Speakers
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. Deborah McGuinness (Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair and Professor of Computer, Cognitive, and Web Sciences at Rensselaer Poytechnical Institute, Troy, NY)
. Michael Gruninger (Professor of Industrial Engineering,Semantic Technologies Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada)
. John Heil (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Washington University, St Louis, and Durham University, UK)

Accepted papers: https://fois2023.griis.ca/accepted-papers/

Workshops (as part of the Joint Ontology Workshops) and tutorials
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Where next? The present and future of geospatial ontologies
Workshop on FAIR Ontologies and Ontologies for FAIR
The Integrated Food Ontology Workshop 2023
Ontologies for Services and Society (OSS)
2nd Workshop on Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law (KM4LAW)
2nd Modular Knowledge Workshop (MK 2023)
7th Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST VII)
Tutorial: The Ontology of Parts, Wholes, and Sums, Antony Galton
Full program :  https://fois2023.griis.ca/program/
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Main Conference : July 17-19, 2023
Workshops and tutorials: July 19-20, 2023

Registration fees (early rate until May 22, 2023)
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Full Conference
Academic and indus.   early 510€ / 750 Can $    regular 580 € / 850 Can$
Student                          early 275€ / 400 Can $    regular 310 € / 450 Can$

Workshop Days (July 19-20)
Academic and indus.   early 260€ / 400 Can $    regular 260 € / 400 Can$
Student                          early 170€ / 250 Can $    regular 170 € / 250 Can$

more information here: https://fois2023.griis.ca/registration/

Location
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FOIS 2023 consists of a physical meeting and a virtual meeting:

An in-person only meeting in Sherbrooke, Quebec from July 17 to 20, 2023 that will be very much like a traditional conference with keynotes, regular talks, workshops and tutorials and plenty of social and networking opportunities. This part will not have a remote participation option, but we plan on recording selected talks (e.g. keynotes).

This will be followed by an online part to be held from September 18 to 20, 2023 that offers an opportunity for presentation and discussion of additional papers that were not presented at the physical meeting in Sherbrooke.

Conference Organization
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General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK
PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France
                Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA
Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Online Chair:  Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France
Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada
                                              Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
Early Career Chairs: Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France
                              Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK
                                       Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands
Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany
                        Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland
Proceedings Chair: Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden
Program committee: https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/


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Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez
Computational Logic Group
Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Computer Science
TU Dresden
GERMANY